Quick and Easy

This recipe is every kid’s favorite – Filipino Spaghetti – and comes from the orphanage that I worked at for a year in Cebu. Spaghetti, hot dogs, tomato sauce, and seasonings. So simple, so good.

This is the start of a ten week series of that is superspecial to me. It’s ten Filipino recipes from the orphanage where I worked […]

I’m gettin all healthy on ya today. I’ve been at the grocery store A LOT lately. Grocery shopping has always been a weekly highlight for […]

Idea #54 for using up the leftover blender lemonade pieces: adding a bright lemon kick to this buttery-garlic Shrimp Scampi! I really meant it when […]

Making lemonade in a blender has truly revolutionized my summer. Eh, I’m not much of a lemonade drinker, said the old me. But the concept […]

I’m going salad crazy. Oh, wait, I said that already yesterday. A chicken and nectarine poppy seed salad is basically this: sweet juicy nectarines, bursts […]

Ohhh my lentils. I just love me somma them beans. Especially when they’re in a big crockpot full of red curry lentils. This week I […]

Five ingredient recipes. I ♥ them. One of my first and still favorite cookbooks is the Fresh Food Fast cookbook by Cooking Light. It features […]

So here’s the deal: this quinoa salad is the current love of my life, and our oven and stove are broken. Like, leaking gas into […]

Oh my. This is fresh and pretty. How can a salad with soft pinks and light greens and the most cooling, refreshing flavors not make […]